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Update: Hanover man found dead in Maryland was murdered

The Evening Sun

Posted:
06/29/2014 06:42:09 AM EDT

Update, June 30

No arrests were made after investigators spent the weekend interviewing friends, family and associates of Prakash Rampatsingh, the Hanover man who was found dead in Maryland on Friday, said Greg Shipley with the Maryland State Police.

Police located all of Rampatsingh's vehicles and are trying to determine how his body ended up on the border of a wooded area in Hampstead, Maryland, Shipley said.

Rampatsingh had been dead for a couple of days when his body was found, Shipley said.

Original report:

A Hanover man found dead Friday morning in a rural part of Carroll County was murdered, Maryland State Police said in a news release.

Prakash Rampatsingh, 50, of Hanover, was found dead at 8 a.m. Friday in the 3200 block of Falls Road in Hampstead, Maryland, police said. Rampatsingh was found lying on the border of a wooded area that was next to a grain field near Falls Road. His body was near a gated access road that leads to a cell phone tower.

Members of a crew working on the cell phone tower who were walking the wood line discovered the body, according to the release.

An autopsy Saturday in Baltimore determined Rampatsingh died from a gunshot wound. Police did not identify the location of the gunshot wound, citing the ongoing investigation.

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No weapons were found at the scene and police said there is no indication Rampatsingh's body was lying where it was found for an extended period of time. Police are attempting to determine when Rampatsingh was last seen alive.

Rampatsingh worked for a property management company in Baltimore and often traveled on Falls Road to and from his home in Hanover, according to the release. Police said they did not find Rampatsingh's vehicle in the area where his body was discovered.

Police are looking for information about the murder, the release states, and Metro Crime Stopper is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information. Information can be provided anonymously by calling 1-866-7LOCKUP.